About the Journal

The Aim, Focus, and Scope

The International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health (IJOSH) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that covers occupational health, safety, and workers' health, including homemakers and students.

It provides occupational health physicians, ergonomists, nurses, occupational hygienists, and health and safety professionals with a dependable single source of proficiently written legal, practical, and management occupational health information.

IJOSH welcomes original research submissions relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological, and psychosocial workplace hazards and environmental contaminants and their health effects, safety standards, and interventions. Research aimed at improving the evidence-based practice of occupational medicine and research on developing and applying novel methods, including biological and statistical techniques, is also of interest. In addition, we publish meta-analyses, systematic reviews, review articles, editorials, commentaries, case studies, and letters to the editor, which provide a forum for debate.

Publication process

The assistant editors initially review all manuscripts submitted to IJOSH to ensure they adhere to the journal's submission guidelines. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines are returned to the authors.

All submissions to IJOSH undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Peer reviewers are experts chosen by editors to provide a written assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of written research. The aim is to improve the article and modify it in the most appropriate and highest mode for the journal. Initial submissions are sent to two reviewers, but a third reviewer is contacted if there is a disagreement between their assessments of whether a submission should be considered for publication. 

Usually, the initial screening of the submissions takes place within two weeks, the first round of peer review takes 45-60 days, and an additional 15-30 days are needed if the paper needs to be revised by the authors before it is sent out for the second round of review. Thus, on average, it takes 120-180 days from the initial submission to the decision to publish the paper. Furthermore, the copyediting process could take between two and three weeks. However, occasionally, the process may take a little longer than anticipated due to the late submission of the reviewers' comments and late response from the authors.

Submissions not fulfilling the author's guidelines will be declined immediately without further clarification.

Indexing

IJOSH is indexed in the COPE, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE), SCI Journal, SCImago, and Scopus.

Similarly, contents published in IJOSH are available on the listing indexes like Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), CORE (core.ac.uk), Crossref, European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), Exaly, Google Scholar, Hinari, Index Copernicus International Journals Master List, JournalTOCs, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals (NSD), Open Access Library (OALib), ResearchGate, Scientific Literatures (SciLit), SafetyLit, WorldCat, etc.

Journal statistics

Basic Journal Statistics for the 2023 and 2024 last 8 months:

                   Name

  2024-01-01           2024-01-01

- 2024-12-31         - 2024-08-17

Submissions Received

         233                       ---

Submissions Accepted

           50                        18

Submissions Declined

          164                       16

Submissions Published

            64                       16

Days to First Editorial Decision

            75                       50

Days to Accept

           247                      60

Days to Reject

            63                       52

Acceptance Rate

            17%                    10%

Rejection Rate

            83%                    90%

 

Digital Preservation/Archiving

The NepJOL website is hosted by Ubiquity Press Limited, registered in England and Wales with Company Number 06677886.
Registered office: Ubiquity Press Ltd, Unit 3.22, East London Works, 65-75 Whitechapel Road, E1 1DU, United Kingdom.

Digital archiving of IJOSH is done by the LOCKSS system and CLOCKSS system under Open Journal Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).

Publication frequency: IJOSH issues are published quarterly. 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. 

The International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health (IJOSH) fully abides by the terms and conditions and policies enlisted by DOAJ, the most important of which is “The full text of ALL content must be available for free and be Open Access without delay (i.e., no embargo period).”

Another important aspect of Open Access is that the author retains the copyright of the article.

IJOSH Content Licensing

IJOSH is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License